Carolina Watchman

              the irish heart a true story ; bt mrs h maria chili it was a pleasant sight to look on james nd nora in their early childhood ; their \ e l.s were so rosy their hair so sunny 1 their clear blue eyes so mild and in t they were the youngest of a cabin-full of children ; and though they did now and then get a cud from the eld one with the hasty words " get out of the way you spalpeen they were the j and playmates of them all their 1 ve for each other was extreme : and though james early in childhood evinced the irish predilection for giving knocks i , was never known to raise his hand a . ainst his little sister when she could first toddle about it was his delight to ga ther the may gowans that grew about the wfiy and put them in nora's curly hair then he would sit before her with his ij^f tds resting on his knees contem plating her with the greatest satisfaction when they were older they might be seen ing the '• pathies 1 side by side or h,.n>l in hand gathering berries among the hawthorn bushes the greatest differ between them seemed to be tbat fames was all fun and frolic while nora was ever serious and earnest when the young maiden was milking he cows her soft low voice might usual ly be heard warbling some ofthe mourn ful melodies of ireland but plaintive notes were rarely heard from james lie came home from his daily labor whistling like a black bird mocking the cuckoo or singing at the top of his clear ringing voice the merry jingle of st patrick's day in the morning or the facetious air of paudt.cn o'rafferty at dancing too he excelled all the lads of the neighbor hood he could dance irish jigs three part reel four-part reel or rowly powly to the tune of the dusty miller or the hakes of baily-sbanny with such a quick . ar for the music that all the lassies de clared they could see the tune upon his feet he was a comely lad too and at weddings and christmas carousals none ol the rustic dandies looked more genteel than he with his buff-coloured vest his knot of ribbons at each knee and hiscau liten 2 set jauntingly on one side of his head being good-natured and mirthful he was a great favorite at wakes and dan ces and festivities of all sorts and he might have been in danger of becoming dissipated had it not been for the happy consciousness of belonging to an honest industrious family and being the pride and darling of nora's heart notwithstanding the natural gaiety of his disposition he had a spirit of enterprise and a love of earning money this ten dency led him early to think of emigra ting to america the eldorado of irish im agination nora resisted the first sugges tion with many tears put james drew line pictures of a farm of his own in the new country antl cows and horses and a pleasant jaunting car ; antl in the farm house and the jaunting ear nora was c verbyhis side for with the very lirst guineas that crossed his hand sure he would send for her the affectionate sis ter accustomed to sympathise with all his plans minn began to help him build his castles in america : aud every penny that she could earn at her spinning-wheel was laid away for passage money put when the time actually arrived for him to go to dublin it was a day of sorrow all the married sisters with their little ones and neighbors from lar and near came to bid him farewell and give their parting bles sing the good mother was busy to the last storing away some little comfort in iis sea-box nora wilh the big tears in her eyes repeated for the thousandth tim and jimmy mavournei u {'■•) if you grow grand there in the new country you'll not be after forgetting un ? vou will send for vour own nora soon " forget itui ' exclaimed james while he pressed her warmly to bis bosom : — when the blessed sun forgets to rise o ver the green earth may be i'll forget you mtivoii rut en illiei i isli i amid often repeated words oi love and blessing he parted from tbem their mu tual sorrow was a little softened by dis tant visions of a final reunion of them all in america but there was a fearful un certainty about this the big sea might swallow him up he might sicken and die among strangers or bail examples might lead him into evil paths worse than death to this last suggession made by an el der sister nora replied wilh indignant earnestness led into evil coorses in vade !" she exclaimed : shame be on you for spaking that same ! and he the dacen test and best behaved boy in all the couu l.v bongford you don't know the heart f him as i do or you'd never be after spa cing of him in that fashion it's a shame 0n you and indade it is but och uurrah k'-lis/i tr let him not sicken and die ere in a strange country and the sister n°t there to do for him !" and overcome ". lhe picture her own imagination had drawn she burst into a passionate flood f tears n a few weeks came a brief letter from the carolina watchman bruner & james ) _ . , " keep a check upon all your editors 4 proprietors i js safe .. c new series _..____• £„«!«___, | number h.of volume ii salisbury n c july 12 1845 j james written on board lhe ship in which he sailed from dublin about 7 months later came a letter dated new york saying he had obtained work at good wa ges and by god's blessing should soon be enabled to send for his dear sister lie added a hint that one ofthese days when he had a house of his own perhaps the father and mother would be after coming over proud mere they in the irish cabin when this letter wns read aloud to all who came to inquire after the young emigrant all his old cronies answered " throlh and he'd do well any where he was al ways a dacent clane spirited boy as tbere was widin a great ways of him — divil a man in the ten parishes could dance the balthorum jig wid him any how time passed on and no other letter crime from james month after month poor nara watched with feverish anxiely to catch sight of her father when he re turned from the distant post ollice ; for he promised if he found a letter to wave his hand high above his head as scon as he came to the top ofthe hill fronting the house hut no letter came ; and at last nora fully believed that her darling bro ther was dead afier writing again and again and receiving no answer she at last wrote lo the son of a neighbor who had emigrated to america and begged of him for tin love of heaven to ascertain whether james was dead or alive and send them word as soon possible the irishman to whom this urgent epistle was addressed was at work on a distant rail road and had no lixed place of residence and so it happened that nora received no answer lo her anxious inquiries for more than a year and a half alter they were written at last there came a crumbled square of soiled paper containing these words : " dear frinds : — black and hevy is my hart for the news 1 have to tell you — james is in prison cancarnin a bit of pa per that he passed for money sorra a one ofthe nabors but will be iettin down i the tears when they hear of the same i don't know the rights of the case ; but i will never believe he was a boy to dis grace an honest family perhaps some other man's sin is upon him lt may be some comfort to you to know that his time will be out in a year and a half any how 1 have not seen james sense i come to a-meriky ; but 1 heern tell of what 1 have writ the blessed mother of heaven keep your harts from sinkin down with this he vy sorrow your frin d and nabor mi i.e mcephy deep indeed was the grief in that poor and honest family when these sad tidings were read poor nora buried her face in her hands ami sobbed aloud the old mother rocked violently to and frc with her apron at her eyes ; and the father though he tried hard lo conceal his emo tion could not restrain the big tears from rolling down his weather-beaten lace — " och wo is the day said he " that ever we lei him go from us sic a dacent lad and belonging io a family that never did a dishonest action and sure all harts were upon him and we all so proud out of him " father said the weeping nora i know tiie hart of him better nor any of vou does ; and 1 know he never had intui tion to do any thing that would bring to the i lush the mother lhat bore him and the sister that slept in his arms when we were both weeny things til go to ame ril.y aud find oul all about it and write you word ■• you go to ameriky ! exclaimed her mother sure you're crazed with the big grief that's upon you eolcen machrce t or you'd nher spake thim words '• and wouldn't he follow me to the ends ofthe earth if the black trouble was on me '" replied nora with passionate earn estness " there was always kindness in him for all human erathurs : but he loved me better for till the world never a one had a bad word agin him but nobody knew him as i did proud was i out of him and lonesome in my heart without him vnd is it i will lave him alone wid his trouble ? troth not if there was ten oceans atween us this vehemence subsided after a while and they talked more calmy of how they should hide their disgrace from the neigh borhood that all their hearts were sad ihey could not conceal day after day their frugal meals removed almost untas ted and every one stepped about silently as after a funeral the very cows came slowly nnd disconsolately as if they heard grief in the voice of their young mistress when called to be milked and the good old mother no longer crooned at her spin ning-wheel the song she had sung over the cradle of her darling boy nora at first persisted in her plan of crossing the atlantic : but her father forbade it and she said no more but her heart grew more and more impatient she spoke less and less of james but she sighed heavily at her work and her eyes were often red • with weeping at last she resolved to depart unknown to any one she rose stealthilv at midnight tied up a small bun dle of clothing placed a little bag of mo ney in her bosom paused and gazed lov ingly on her sleeping parents hastily brush t cd away the gathering tears and stepped out into the moonlight she stood for a few moments and gazed on the old famil iar hills and fields on the potatoe patch where she and james had worked toge ther many a day on the old well by the side of which the may gowans grew and cm the clear white cabin where the dear old ones slept she passed into the little shed that she served as a stable for the animals and threw her arms around the donkey's neck and kissed the cow that knew her voice as well as her own mo ther did she came forth weeping and gazed on the old homestead as she would gaze on the face of a dying friend the clustering memories were too much for her loving heart dropping on her knees she prayed in an agony of sorrow " if it be a sin to go away from the good old fa ther and mother niver to sec thim agin till the judgment day thou oh ! father in heaven wilt thou forgive mc ; for thou seest i can not lave him alone wid his great trouble !" then crossing herself she said in a sti fled voice " the father of glory be wid ye and bless and keep you all half blinded with tears she wended her way over the moon-lighted hills and when her favorite cow called as usual for her milking pail in the first blush in the morning she was already far on her way to dublin and had james been criminal ? in the eye of the law he had been ; but his sis ', ter was right when she said he had no j intention to do a avicked thing not long after his arrival in america he was one day walking along the street in a respec table suit of sunday clothes when a stran ger came up and entered into conversa tion with him after asking some indif ferent questions he inquired what his coat ' cost " sixteen dollars was the answer i will give you twenty for it said the stranger for i am going away in a hur ry and have no time to get one made james was as unsuspecting as a child he thought this was an excellent oppor i tunity to make four dollars to send to his darling sister ; so he readily agreed to the bargain " i want a watch too said the stran ger ; " but perhaps you would not be wil ling to sell yours for ten dollars james frankly confessed that it was two dollars more than he gave for it and ve : ry willingly consented to the transfer — some weeks after he attempted to pass j the money the stranger had given him and he found to his dismay that it was ; counterfeit after brooding over his dis appointment for some time he came to a conclusion at which better educated men than himself have sometimes arrived he thought to himself — it is hard for a poor : man to lose so much by no fault of his own since it was put oil upon me i just put it off on somebody else may be it will keep going the rounds or that somebody will lose it that can better afford it than 1 can it certainly was a wrong conclusion but it was a bewilderment of the reason ing powers in the mind of an ignorant man and did not involve wickedness of intention he passed the money and was soon after arrested for forger he told , his story plainly but as he admitted that he knew the money was counterfeit when he passed it the legal construction of his crime was forgery in the second degree he had passed three bills and had the penalty of the law been enforced with its utmost rigor he might have been sentenc ed to the state prison for 15 years ; but appearances were so much in his favor tbat lhe court sentenced him for 5 years five years taken away from the young life of a laboring man spent in silent toil in shame and sorrow for a blighted repu tation was indeed a heavy penalty for confused notions of right and wrong con cerning bits of paper stamped wilh a no minal value but law in its wisest and kindest administration cannot always make nice distinctions between thought less errors and wilful crimes it is probable james never felt the de gree of compunction that it is supposed every convict ought to feel ; for the idea was ever with him that if he had sinned against government he did not mean to sin asrainst god that he had disgraced himself he knew full well and felt most keenly the thoughts of what nora and his rood old mother would suffer if they could see him driven to hard labor with thieves and murderers tore his soul in an guish he could not bring his mind to write to them or send them any tidings of his fate he thought it was better that thev should suppose him dead than know of his disgrace thus the weary months passed silently away the laugh of his eve and the bound of his step were gone day after day he grew more disconsolate and stupid he had been in prison about four years when one of the keepers told him that a youncr woman had come to visit him and i he had permission to see her he follow ed silently wondering who it could be ; and a moment after he was locked in his , sister's arms for some time nothing but : sobs were audible they looked mourn fully in each other's faces then fell on ■ each other's neck and wept again ■ " vnd so vou knew me mavoureen . ■ said nora at last trying to smile through i her tears " know you !'' he replied folding her more closely to his breast " a cusltla machrce 7 and would'nt i know your shadow on the wall of ihe darkest cellar they could put me in ? but who came wid you mavoureen . " " troth and it was alone i come i run away in the night i hope it wasn't wrong to lave the good father and mother when they had spoke agin my coming i wouldn't like to do any thing displaising to god — but jimmy machrce my heart was break in widout you ; and i couldn't lave you alone wid your great trouble sure its long ago i would have been wid you if you had let us a known of yourmislortin the poor fellow wept afresh at these assurances of his sister's affection \\ hen he was calmer he told her circumstan tially how the great trouble had come up on him god be praised for the words you spake replied nora " it will take a load off of hearts at home when they hear of , the same i always said there was no sin in your heart : for who must know that better nor mc who slept in the same cra dle ? a blessing be wid you mavourneen the music's in my heart to hear the sound of your voice agin and proud will i be out of you as 1 used to be when all eyes young and old brightened on you in warm old ireland " but norah dheevtslt the disgrace is on me said the young man looking down they will say i am a convict " sorra a fig i care for what they say replied the warm-hearted girl " don't i know the heart that is in you didn't 1 say there was no sin in your intintions though you was shut up in this bad place and if there had been — if the black mur der had been widin you is it nora would be after laving you alone wid you sin and your shame ? troth i would weary the saints in heaven wid prayers till they made you a better man for the sake of your sister's love but there was no sin in your heart ; and proud i am of you a su'tl lish machrce ; 8 and bad luck to the rogue that brought vou into all this trou ble the keeper reminded them"thak-4 ! time allowed for their interview was near ly spent " you will come agin ?" said james im ploringly " you will come to me agin : acushla machrce ?" " i had to beg hard to see you once re plied nora " they said it was agin the rules but when 1 told them how i come alone across the big ocean to be wid you in your trouble because i knew the heart that was in you they said i might come in lt is a heavy sorrow that we cannot spake together but it will be a comfort mavourneen to be where i can look on these stone avails the kind man here they call the chaplain says i may stay with his family ; and sure not an hour in the day but i will think of you a villislt 9 the same moon shines here that used to shine on us when we had our may dances on the green in dear old ireland ; and when they let you get a glimpse of her bright face you can think may be nora is looking up at it as she used to do when she was your own weeny darlint wid the shamrock and gowan in the hair i will work and lay by money for you ; and when you come out of this bad place it's nora will stand by you ; and proud will i be out of you a suillish machrec the young man smiled as he had not smiled for years he kissed his sister ten derly as he answered " ah nora ma vourneen its yourself lhat was always too good to me god's blessing be wid yon acushla macltree it will go hard wid me but i will make some return for such good ness " and sure its no goodness ot all re plied nora " is it yourself would be af ter leaving mc alone and 1 in the great trouble hut tut jimmy avick sure it's nothing at all any body would do it you're as dacent and clever a lad asiver you was sing that to your heart ma vourneen it's nora that will stand by you all the world over with a smile that she meant should be a brave one but with eyes streaming with tears she bade her beloved brother fare well he embraced her wilh vehement tenderness and with a deep sigh return ed to his silent labor but the weight was taken olf his heart and his step was lighter for " ii i r.'s sunshine linsere r,n his rison wall ami love looked in ujion h:a sol l nora remained with the kind-hearted chap lain ever watching the gloomy walls nt sing sin when her brother's term expired she was°at the prison door to welcome him and lead him forth into the sunshine and the free air rev john lucky the chaplain whose name will live in the grateful recollection of many a poor prisoner received them into his house cheered and strengthened their hearts bv kind words and judicious counsel and sent them to the office of the prison association no 13 pine-street new york as james brought certificates of good conduct while in prison the association lent him tools and re commended him to a worthy mechanic at this place he would have remained had not his em plover needed a journevman thoroughly versed in ins trade , it is the policy at sing sing not to allow the prisoners to learn all the branches of anv businfess lest they should come into com pet:'u.n with mechanics out of the prison what james had been accustomed to do he did with great industry and e_pertness but he ccu'd not do all the mechanic required and was therefore kindly and honorably dismissed had he been dishonest he might have gone ofl with lbe tools : but he came to the ollice of the association to ask whether they were will ing he should keep them till he could obtain work elsewhere and earn enough to pay for them — they of course consented verv cordially and told him to remember that so long as he behav ed well they would always be fiiends in need his sister was with him like his shadow and their earnest expressions of gratitude were tru ly ailecting thev are doing well and doubtless will do well may the blessing of our father be with them they arc two of the kindest hearts and most transparent seels among that reverent loving confiding but impulsive people who a b ive all others deserve to be called ihe little children ofthe nation 1 potatoes 2)cap 3 barling | 1 sweet darling 5 sweet virgin ii pet of my heart 7 pulse of my heart 8 light of my heart 9 dear from the american fenny magazine the christian alliance propose o us the people of italy as the first object of inte rest truly there is much in their pre sent condition to recommend litem to our special attention while most other na tions of europe partake with some de gree of freedom of the intellectual light which pervades our own country italy is denied its enjoyment under severe penal ties although the fact is not generally realized here knowledge of the most im portant kinds is now as much prohibited in some parts of italy as it was in eng land four centuries ago and indeed under penalties at that time unknown yet there are not wanting those who desire information many of tbe italians have travelled abroad and seen the practical influence of principles the oppositeof those which prevail in their own country they have been enabled to cast oil false opin ions instilled into their minds by their teachers and to rise above tbe prejudices of their education there are now pcr haps not fewer than twenty thousand ex j iles in different countries who cannot live ' in frcedam at home without denying their : principles a__4-h_any of whom are alrea j dy robbed of property hfld-§ebtdnced to imprisonment or death for no immorality ; but merely for conscience sake in short there are multitudes at home ■ and abroad who desire to have the truth introduced into italy and diffused among the people especially religious truth and with affecting earnestness a solemn appeal i was first made by some of them io our ; countrymen about three years ago which ! was the first step towards the formal ion ! of that society which has already risen to i such distinguished favor among us it may perhaps be asserted that no other philanthropic association in america has ever received such evidence of enthusias tic feelings among us as the christian al liance no doubt the bull of the pope has made its objects to be better appreci ated : but no man who considers for a mo ment the character of our countrymen and the affecting claims presented to them by the people of italy can fail to see tbat the promotion of religious liberty through out the world by legitimate enlightened and peaceful means is a mosl appropriate undertaking for us aud that the " bibb for italy is a ery that must of necessity inspire us all with animation zeal and enthusiasm the rea on is tbat the effects of the introduction of that book into that land must be powerful general and last ing think of the results first in italy then in countries under tbe influence ol italy but is it possible tbat is the question often asked witb great doubt in months past but who will ask it now since the pope himself bas decided it by tbe strongest affirmation he can give . hence the feelings excited by lbe late crowded meetings of the christian alli ance in new york and boston the plan is feasible ; tbe castle of midnight \\ hose dark shadow has spread over europe and many other countries tbe gloom under which they have lain for more than a thousand years is accessible to light ; her very garrison supplicate us to withhold it no longer and we have only to train our printing presses to bear point blank upon tbe walls and battlements to gain for the human race a glorious a mighty and a bloodless victory death from tobacco — we learn fiom the dedham democrat that a little boy of six years old son of mr lewis cobbet.of west dedham went to the store of mr jason ellis jr in that place and asked tbe clerk a boy by the name of hank for some kind of confectionary — that he was told they had no sugar plums bnf he could have seme tobacco the child replied that tobacco would make bim sick the clerk argued that it would not and took a crack r and put on some butter and mo lasses and tobacco and succeeded in some way in et'.in it down tbe child the little fellow was taken with vomiting soon after and continued to do so for several days and at length went into fits and fi nally died on thursday the g:h instant flattering enferenc e it is a maxim in the schools that women always dote on foob ; t so dear jack i'm sure your wife lust lov you as she does her life irish colleges in the debate on the maynoolh bill which has been going on in the british parliament for some time the loyalty ofthe irish catholics was impugned hy the opposition the earl of ro den mentioned an anecdote which showed a strong feeling of attachment f.r our own coun try in the college for which the grant is pro posed the earl of roden urged asanobjec tion to the grant that the student of the insti tution entertained disloyal sentiments he said that on christmas and st patrick's night fes tivities were indulged and on one of these oc casions the ear remarked : " a priest in the county of kerry was select ed to show off hi vocal powers on one ofthese nights : he chose from his collection of songs one composed by a roman catholic bishop of america of the loyalty or disloyalty of this poetic effusion 1 leave lhe meeting to judge 1 shall repeat a few lines of it from memory : • columbia's banni high her eagle ei es . i its prey -. tli i erin wipe thy tearful eye an i cheer your 1 ; • on patrii k's day _ f > » « •'■ the toast we'll drink is albion's fall 7i 1 erin's i ;. i patrii k's daj .' •• in a college supported by a royal grant and in the presence of above six hundred leva men you would expect that such treason was instant ly scouted — no it was cheered and encour aged this song was sung in all directions through the college and i never heard that the professors or acting superiors censured or re buked those who sung this disloyal production greensboro high school i is a matter of gratification to the friends of education and of our town to note the steady increase of scholars and other indications of ultimate and permanent suc cess in our high school now on the roll and in regular attendance tbere are st .•■' nl>i students the minds of those ve ry kindheartcd an.l charitable individuals at a distance wbo say that tbe number of the school is made up ol little boys who have to be attended by their nurses may bet set at case the idea should not be suffered to torture iheir tender feelings any longer there are only eleven or twelve ofthe whole number whose schol astic advancements do not require that thev shall pay full tuition antl there arc in the high school no greater propor tion of small scholars than was usual in the institute it is desirable that the public should un derstand the greensboro high school is i not a rival ofthe caldwell institute or of '■ any other institution ; but that it is alone emulous of the highest character that can attach to an institution of its grade and that under tbe trustees who have heen chosen and the faculty who have its management it will sustain that charac ter the school will continue to be wor thy the long-cherished lame of guilford as j ancient seat of learning — greendtoro ' pairiolr from the new ' leans picayune june 21 the camanches and the mexicans our readers may recollect that our latest ac counts from the noi tl ern borders of texas re presented that a large body of camanches were encamped on little river and that the head chiefs had sent in a runner to presideni jones asking his permission to allow their families to remai-c in the buffalo range near the frontier while the warriors of the trihe went on an ex pedition against the mexicans it wns only un til wc saw a recent number of the red lander that iv were made acquainted with the causes which have induced the camanches to plan a new and grand attack upon the frontier settle ments it w uld seem that not long since p.-chin-a quah-bip or buffalo hump one of tbe principal camanche chiefs was sent to mexico with threo men who were also chief two women and a child to oillu peace to that people on arriving nt presidio rio grande a military station below ll paso del norte tbey were greeted by the mexicans wilh every demonstration t friendship and directed to proceed to san fer nando on ti'.'-ir pacitic miss •::. w ie'ii they first reached that place they were again treated in a friendly manner — the ci iz ns made every demon tration of peace and escorted them to the public square : bul bi lore they had time to disnn uni ihey •:-■ re fired upon by an armed , that had b n concealed in lbe bouses which killed three men ai nan the . :; .- woman and child wbo were the wife and chilu f buffalo hump were taken prisoners and h alone succeeded i:i i....'.!ii_r his escape this acl of treachery has exasperated the ca manches to such a degree that they have sworn summary rengeance and tbe force with which they intended to attack th ■ frontier settlements of l txico ■• m isted of i rer one thousand of their picked warrioi . if they have really starti ; on the expedition wc shall h<-ar of the enactment of bloody scenes before lbe summer is over singular law t a n . — the new < means cresc nl city bas the following notice of a ca e tried in that i ( i r — before judge collens — a novi 1 case was d cided yesterday in this ' court in which a boy aged about io year was claimed by two persons each main taining that she was the real mother — the plaintiffs john paul and martha paul his wife bad lost their sou about two weeks ago antl some few days since had been informed that the defendant a mrs hughes bad tb boy in her possession — the latter had lo'-t a son some three years and a half tiro and found ibis child whom she and some friends said tbey identified as the child lost at that time by mr hughes the case occupied the court for three day but judgment was given in favor of the plaintiffs it having beeq satisfactorily proved that the boy was the son of john and martha paul for some time he ihe child persisted in stating tbat he really was the son of mrs hughes and denied bis parents mr and mrs paul and it was not until he was removed from the influence of mrs hughes presence that he admitted his real identity \> e believe that this is a case without prece dent except the one stated to have been brought before king solomon which is recorded in the bible